TN brings back electric chair...Poll: More people approve of same-sex marriage...Nepal avalanche kills 3

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If prison officials in Tennessee run out of the drugs used to carry out a lethal injection on a death row inmate, they can now use the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute condemned inmates. Lethal injection drugs are becoming more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions. Groups that oppose executions say they expect legal challenges to arise.

UNDATED (AP) — Public opinion on whether gay couples should be allowed to marry legally is changing, with more now in favor of same-sex marriage than opposed to it. Forty-six percent of people surveyed in the latest Associated Press-GfK poll favor same-sex marriage, and 39 percent oppose in. And 1 in 7 say they're neutral on the question.

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber and her two Sherpa guides are presumed dead after they were swept by an avalanche on the world's third tallest peak, Mount Kanchenjunga. Police in Nepal say rescuers have found no trace of the three climbers after they were hit by the avalanche at 23,940 feet on Wednesday. In April, an avalanche hit a trail on Mount Everest in Nepal, killing 16 Sherpa guides.

DEMING, N.M. (AP) — State police in southwestern New Mexico say Interstate 10 became deadly Thursday, when a multi-vehicle crash during a dust storm killed at least six people. Police say the crash in Hidalgo County involved passenger and commercial vehicles. There's no word on the number of injuries.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The sky's the limit for students in Philadelphia, now that their beloved space program has been saved from the budget ax. Project SPARC is the nickname of Northeast High School's Space Research Center. And students in the program are trying to virtually colonize the moon. They've got a 21-foot-long shuttle simulator and an actual Apollo mission training capsule. SPARC launched about 50 years ago as the first NASA-recognized high school space program. But funding problems threatened to end it this year.